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Re: Electrical Faults - '77 Spitfire 1500

To: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Subject: Re: Electrical Faults - '77 Spitfire 1500
From: Grant Buss <buss3@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:16:03 -0400
Check the connections in the back of the fuse panel. I had a loose one and I
lost all those things and signal lights.

Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Carly has an intermittent electrical problem - from time to time, the
> rev counter dies.   When it does, it takes the windscreen wipers and
> washers with it.   More often than not, when I start the car, the rev
> counter/wipers/washers are non-functional.   Leaving the engine running
> and fiddling with the switches and wires doesn't help.   Once I drive
> away, the problem normally disappears within a few hundred yards, and
> does not recur for several miles.   Once the problem returns, I am
> without rev counter, wipers and washers for a minute or so, and then the
> wipers and washers come back, followed shortly afterwards by the rev
> counter.   The problem is less pronounced if I am driving with wipers
> permanently on - they have never cut out on me, once they are up and
> running - and the cycle is much quicker if I am driving in town than
> when I am on a longer run.   Turning the engine off and restarting
> resets the problem to the beginning.
>
> Other known electrical faults with this car include non-functioning
> cockpit light (probably just a bulb gone); non-functioning hazard
> warning lights (they worked for me once, but no longer), missing cigar
> lighter, non-functioning seatbelt warning light (I don't think it's
> connected, but I haven't traced the wiring yet), non-functioning
> reversing lights and non-functioning heater fan.   All the other lights,
> gauges, indicators and the radio work fine.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?   Please don't tell me I need a new wiring harness!
>
> ATB
> Mike
> --
> Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea,"
> published by Greenhill Books on 28th March, 2001:
> http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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